Meanwhile the Ground Zero transit hub — another grand plan that has been getting nowhere — unveiled a redesign on Saturday. The Times‘ Nicolai Ouroussoff says Santiago Calatrava “remains unable to overcome the project’s fatal flaw: the striking incongruity between the extravagance of the architecture and the limited purpose it serves,” especially since the Port Authority canned some of the hub’s functions, including the originally-proposed airport links. Calatrava has also been obliged by economic necessity to add retail shops to his grandiose design.

We’re starting to think we should just forget the whole thing and build something New Yorkers can really use, like a roller disco.